I have installed the new version of PEP and this still does not recognize my 9600 on Windows Vista. The same with the firmware updater.

I have also encountered the problem running PEP reported in the NG forum. I rebuilt my work notebook and installed PEP. PEP worked fine. A few hours later. when I try to run the program it crashes immediately. Playing around with compatility settings and turning off Aero made no difference. The new version of PEP still works fine on other computers.

I no longer have any computers running XP. This means I cannot make any changes to my configuration or upgrade to the latest firmware.

PLEASE, PLEASE provide a version that works on Vista.

Peter,

Did you email the team?

That is a good point. I am very interested in getting one, either TSU 7500 or 9600 but I run Apple computers only. Are they EVER going to provide Macintosh compatibility??

Funnily enough I discovered this yesterday. I dont plan on having XP around for long. I use a Mac mainly too and would *much* prefer to set up my pronto from a mac than from a windows pc. i have emailed philips - I would have thought there would be lots of Mac people out there who want to be able to edit their prontos.

The latest figures give Apple a 6% market share, so there's really not enough of a demand (or at least ROI) for Mac software yet (especially now that the latest models can run XP natively).

I just installed DashCode, for building Dashboard widgets. I could not help comparing and contrasting with ProntoEdit..Wow. A beautiful interface with easy to understand way to build beautiful UI and code and debug it. Useful help leading me through the most common use cases making sure I didnt miss anything. Much advanced capability under the covers. ProntoEdit by comparison is advanced clearly but to me its an awkard and hard to fathom tool with toytown icons and button art. I suppose the ROI might not be there for Philips but they *might* learn something from the OS X tools team about UI design for development tools.

It just seems a shame not to be able to use a state of the art computer OS to program this device. To me it just seems wrong. Of course Im perfectly willing to accept that perhaps its just me..

Back to the main topic - Until Vista is supported I guess I will keep an old XP laptop just for Pronto. I can cope with having Vista on my Mac but the ROI isnt there for me to enable triple booting it to have XP just for pronto.

Maybe some people with XP and Vista on the same machine can give me the following registry export of all current controlsets (001, 002, 003 etc) the USB Common Class Generic Parent Driver in HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet???\Services\usbccgp of both Vista and XP. Here is my Vista sample:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\usbccgp]
"DisplayName"="Microsoft algemeen hoofd-USB-stuurprogramma"
"Group"="Base"
"ImagePath"=hex(2):73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\
52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,75,00,73,00,62,00,63,00,63,00,67,\
00,70,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000003
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Tag"=dword:00000014

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\usbccgp\Enum]
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001
"0"="USB\\VID_0471&PID_060A\\5&7f2fb3b&0&2"

May I ask why?

Because that's the last thing I see the editor do on Vista.

I give up... It works with Vista as a Host and XP as Client in VMWARE6 after turning of the firewall of Vista. I can see it jump from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\usbccgp to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USB
on the XP VMWARE session, but it doesn't do so on Vista. I can't find any access denied events, it just won't go further then that. All three USB devices (HUB,HID,STORAGE) appear to be correctly installed.

So for now VMWARE6 and turning of the firewall will give you a working ProntoEdit Pro on Vista. We probably have to wait for Philips for an update to get it directly working in Vista.